Improvement in seeding-machines



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D. S. ALVORD, AUSTINBURGQAND CHARLES D. HOLLIS, OF ASHTABULA,

OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 110,720, dated January 3, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT lhl SEEDINGWMACHINES.

The Schedule referred to h1 these Letters Patent and making part of thame.

To all whom. 'it may concern:

,Be it known that we, D. S. ALvoRD, ofA-ustinburg and CHARLES D; HOLLIS, of Ashtabula, in theeounty `of' Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SeedingMachines.; and We do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete descriptionof the saine, reference being had, to the accompanying drawings making a part of this specification, in` whieh- Figure 1 is a side view of the machine.'

Figure 2, a view ofthe top.

Figure 3, a View of the under side, with the wheel attached. v

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

This machine is for -the purpose of planting corn or other grain and seeds so that an equal number of grains shall be dropped at regular and equal distances, in rows or hills.

1n fig. 1, A represents a seed-box mounted lupon .a wheel, B, having its bearings in standards or stays O.

Proceeding from the front end of the box is an arm, D, in the extreme end of which is jourualed `a guide-wheel E.

F is a tube depeudingfronl the upper end of the arm,.and communicates with the interior of the box by means of a channel or groove in which is fitted and works a slide, G, g. 3.

In the front endof said slide "is a cup or hole, H, of the same-capacity as the hole in the bottom ofthe box, indicated bythe dotted line a, g. 2, and which also conforms in size to the bore of the tube.

I, iig. 1, is a share, xed to .the lower end of the standard J, said standard being attached to the arm D in advance of the tube, as shown in the drawing.

K is an arm proceeding from the 'slide down to and' below the rim ofthe wheel B, where it is made to engage with a pin, c, projecting from the side of thel wheel, for a purpose hereinafter shown.

The practical operation of this machine is as follows:

The 'grain being placed in the box referred to, the` Now'as thel wheel B revolves, the pin .c strikes. against the arm K, thereby pushing along the slide, and carrying the cup orA hole a to and over the mouth of the tube. The 'corn brought in the cup, some' four or five grains, which is the holding capacity of the hole, will drop into the mouth of the tube and through that to the ground.

On the disengagement of the pin with the arm the slide is again thrown back, as shown in'fig. 3, by the spring A'. The cup or hole is again filled from the box by being brought in proper relation to the outlet or opening in the box alluded to.

By this time the' pin has made another revolution,

which is equal to four feet, the distance apart that the corn is to be planted. The slide is again pushed forward, bringing the lilled cup to the mouth of the tube,

into which the corn is dropped ,as before, and fromL thence, to the ground; and so on to the end.

It will be obvious that by this `machine grain may be planted any distance apart less than four feet, the

length of the circumference of the wheel, by simply introducing one or more additional pins in the rim of the wheel, so that theV slide shall be operated more frequently as the wheel revolves. Hence corn, beans, peas, or, other,` seeds maybe planted' very closely together, forming rows or drills instead of hills several feet apart. y Y

That .We claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the seed-box A, wheel B, Icin-ved arm D,'guide\vheel E, tube F, slide G, arm K, pin c, and spring A', asand for the purpose specified.

D. S. ALVORD.-

OHAS, D. HOLLIS. Withesses:

W. H. Bunninen, Tenononn HALL. 

